> DigitalOcean continues to be a high-growth business with $275M in [annual recurring revenues] and more than 500,000 customers globally. Under this new organizational structure, we are positioned to accelerate profitable growth by continuing to serve developers and entrepreneurs around the world.”
If not obvious this can be translated as positioning the company so it can be acquired by a larger entity for it's customer base and remaining employees.
> It says it works with more than 1 million developers across 195 countries.
I always love marketing statements like this. For sure 1 million is a large number. But what makes someone a 'developer'? It's not something defined like 'Physician' or 'Pilot' or 'Attorney' which require some type of certification to use the title. To DO (in terms of the marketing) a 'developer' is almost certainly only someone who signed up for an account and perhaps (as with other web properties) multiple accounts.
(I have used DO and was happy although I don't have a need for what they offer anymore).
If they're counting accounts it's definitely much lower. Our firm manages web applications / web services / websites for multiple clients and they all have their own DO account and there isn't 1 developer per account.
We were pretty excited to become part of their partner program but after signing up we realized that if we onboarded new clients we'd have to do it all under a single account, which sadly doesn't work for us because extremely delayed payments are very common, and we'd be fronting hosting costs for everyone.
If not obvious this can be translated as positioning the company so it can be acquired by a larger entity for it's customer base and remaining employees.
> It says it works with more than 1 million developers across 195 countries.
I always love marketing statements like this. For sure 1 million is a large number. But what makes someone a 'developer'? It's not something defined like 'Physician' or 'Pilot' or 'Attorney' which require some type of certification to use the title. To DO (in terms of the marketing) a 'developer' is almost certainly only someone who signed up for an account and perhaps (as with other web properties) multiple accounts.
(I have used DO and was happy although I don't have a need for what they offer anymore).